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Wednesday, August 22, 2012

The Allen telescope will search for signs of life extraterrestrial


The ATA is made up of 42 satellite dishes that scan the cosmos for intelligent life.
The Institute for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI, for its acronym in English), based in California, USA, announced that it managed to raise the funds needed to resume operations of a parabolic group exploring the cosmos in search of intelligent life .

Monday, August 20, 2012

Two European telescopes get into a nebula


The region of the Eagle Nebula has a depth of tens of light years and is in the process of giving life to new stars.
European astronomy has scored two major successes in the study of outer space.

Saturday, August 18, 2012

Hubble captures a stunning image of the brightest galaxy


The Hubble Space Telescope has captured an image of a spiral galaxy with bars that can help understand the Milky Way.
Most of the known spiral galaxies fall into this category of "slash" - which is defined by its pronounced structure bars across their centers.
The existence of this structure can indicate the age of the galaxy.
Two thirds of the nearest galaxies are young and bar, while only a fifth of the oldest and most distant have it.
The new image is a milestone in the long history of the Hubble Space Telescope in the stunning astronomical imaging.